The typical American grade-school schedule is mixed up in the middle, according to a 2011 study recently resurfaced on Reddit. While most schools (over 95% as of 2006) hold lunch before recess, a nutritional study in Utah found that when recess was moved before lunch, grade-school students ate 54% more fruits and vegetables.

This wasn’t a surprise. In 2010, the New York Times reported on multiple studies and pilot programs that moved recess before lunch. An Arizona study saw nurse visits drop 40 percent. According to the Times, “One child told school workers that he was happy he didn’t throw up anymore at recess.” In a 2002 Montana study, kids who had recess before lunch wasted less food (and ate it more slowly) and drank more milk and water. Because of this, says the Times, by 2010 one-third of Montana schools had moved recess to before lunch.